Social potential fields: A distributed behavioral control for autonomous robots

Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance for Manipulators and Mobile Robots

Oussama Khatib · The International Journal of Robotics Research · 1986 · 7.6K citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering +14

Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model

Craig W. Reynolds · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 1987 · 5.1K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Zoology +17

Exact robot navigation using artificial potential functions

Elon Rimon, Daniel E. Koditschek · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation · 1992 · 1.8K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Robotics Engineering +17

A Perspective on Range Finding Techniques for Computer Vision

R.A. Jarvis · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1983 · 782 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Robotics Engineering +13

On the Complexity of Motion Planning for Multiple Independent Objects; PSPACE- Hardness of the "Warehouseman's Problem"

John E. Hopcroft, Jacob T. Schwartz, Micha Sharir · The International Journal of Robotics Research · 1984 · 467 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computational Geometry +5